Constant polling of API with Web App

[jlumb]

I'm quite new to vb.net coding and I'd like to create a very simple web App that sits on my shared hosting account which polls a web service every 30 seconds, pulls the data back and adds it to my database.

Can anyone suggest a nice way of doing this?

 

[giadich]

what you are asking is not quite possible with shared hosting and/or web app.

web app isn't capable of firing requests on its own. if you have access to the box you can do it with windows service, windows script host, scheduled tasks, windows app...